Central Point is located about thirteen miles south of Table Rocks in the Rogue River/Bear Creek Valley. The town was named in …

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Civic leaders demonstrated their commitment to an educated populace by opening Central School, shown here in 1858, and located originally at Southwest Sixth and Morrison.  …

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The 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition was the West Coast’s first worlds fair. This central vista shows the Foreign Exhibits Building on the left, and the …

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Centro Cultural de Washington County is an educational and cultural center in Cornelius that offers aid and other services to Latinos. During World War II, …

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C.E.S. Wood may have been the most influential cultural figure in Portland in the forty years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. He helped …

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CH2M Hill was perhaps the most successful engineering concern established in Oregon. Founded by an engineering professor at Oregon State College (now Oregon State University …

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In 2005, Lakeview appeared to be banking on improved business resulting from construction of Oregon’s newest prison. The project would create new jobs and bring …

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The Champagne Riot in Douglas County on December 25, 1866, generated statewide newspaper coverage. The violent episode—named for the Roseburg-area settler at whose home …

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The town of Champoeg had a brief but memorable life. Instigated by geographic advantage in the 1830s, Champoeg was swept away by devastating Willamette River …

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Journalists and other commentators first began using the term “New West” in the 1980s. It referred to the rapidly changing face of the American West, …

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